The present URL for the national
website was established near the end of 2005. Its present URL has remained the
same: (http://donauschwaben-usa.org/
) . The present site continues to
receive "thousands" of hits. There has been an increase of over 120%
more usage than in the last evaluated time period. While there are several
sections of the website that appear to draw a lot of visitor interest, some
sections have experienced a drop in visitation. The most likely cause is
lack of current content from the membership. The website continues to be
an instrument of promoting the Donauschwaben interests. However, its
potential usage is far from being realized to date.

THE BAD NEWS

Previous LUSA Webmaster
recommendations to the membership clubs- little, if any, appear to have been
implemented.

Still no new
contributors to website. Content contributions to the site remain mainly
from 4 or 5 clubs!

Several new pages on the
website experienced a good visitation rate initially. However, as current
content dropped off, so did the number of "hits". (Jugend und
Kinder, Donauschwaben Issues, Sports info)

Still no corrections to
LUSA club links as of the first quarter of the year 2007.

Combined calendar
information is not being received from the individual clubs (only 4 clubs have
submitted data to date)

(Chicago, Cleveland,
Mansfield and Trenton)

Less than 1/2 of the
member clubs have a representative at the webmaster meetings!

THE GOOD NEWS

Verbandszeitung showing promise, but content
dropping.

Website, in general, still drawing a lot of
"hits"

Club Presidents give okay to use each member
clubs' information to be used in Landesverband Website Newsletters. This
will help to promote the Donauschwaben heritage.

We are still seeking contributing authors for Website
articles. Please write to the webmaster, if you have an interest in submitting
material.

WEBSITE
STATISTICS APRIL- 2008

Over
1239 Printable Pages

(Was
544 one year ago; 856 since September 2007)

Total
of 147 separate pages in website.

(Was
86 one year ago; 123 since September 2007)

Newsletter
and History sections with the most hits and printable pages.

Approximately
68,000 total website hits to date.

(Was
31,000 one year ago; 54,000 since September 2007)

Over
37,000 hits since April 2007 meeting.This
represents more hits in one year than the 2+ previous years since the inception
of this website!

Keep resolution low (but
good enough) to minimize memory usage. They need to be kept within monitor field
size for best and easiest presentation. Try to keep the file size below
500K per picture. The server will not accept large pix files.

4. Send information, pix,
etc. as attachments and not in body of email message, if possible.

5. Be as current and early
as possible (timely manner) to allow for (LWM) time to place on website. Donít
wait until the last minute?!

6. Do spell check, etc.
before submission to (LWM).

7. Title information or
article as it needs to be displayed before submission.